1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 5 
oblong, tapering gradually to the thick seta 15mm. long; operculum 
conic-rostrate, the beak only covered by the conic calyptra; teeth when 
dry strongly reflexed around the flaring mouth; spores 8-12 y. 
Has.: On the ground: Closter, N. J. (Austin). 
4. F. hyalinus Witson & Hooker: Jour. Bot. 1841. 89, t. 2. 
SULLIV ANT: Braap ane U.S. 24.—Icon. Muse. 34. t. 21.—Lesq. & JAMES: Man. 84,—MITTEN : 
Jou n. Soc, 21. 558, 
COLL. setae ANT: Musci. All. no. 180, 
Plants minute, 2-4mm. high, pale green, whole plant more or less 
hyaline, gregarious: stem simple or branched at the base: leaves 3-5 
pairs, upper much larger, very thin and soft, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
entire, bordered by a single row of verv narrow elongate cells; costa 
none; vaginant lamina less than one-half length; cells large, 82-4868- 
100 », thin-walled, elongate-hexagonal, chlorophyll bodies few: flowers 
dioicous; male unknown; female terminal, two-leaved: fruit terminal ; 
seta 1-2mm. long; capsule oblong-oval, erect, thin; teeth closely articu- 
late, cleft to middle ; operculum rostrate, calyptra covering the beak only ; 
ae 14-20 ate 
ocky ledges at Bank Lick, near Cincinnati, Ohio (Lea, 1839; 
i. ere ee on ground in deep ravines near Painesville, Ohio ( Beardslee). 
5. F. incurvus SCHWAGRICHEN: Suppl. I, part 1. t. 49. 
eerste ee Moss-F1. 1. 69. t. 10 C.—J AMES: bitten Am. Phil. Soe. 13. 109.—LEsq. 
& JAMES: n, §2.—MiTTEN: Jour. Linn. Soe 557. 
Cou, : SULL. ners Musci Bor. Am, 2 ed, no. sie — AUSTIN: Musci App. no. 101, in 
part. 
Plants small, 2-5 mm. high, gregarious or sub cespitose: stem sim- 
ple, slender, ascending: leaves 4-10 pairs, straight or decurved, not 
imbricate, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, - easeapeied border nar- 
row, almost or quite wanting at apex, widening at base; costa percurrent 
or sub-percurrent; vaginant lamina one-half length or more ; inferior lam- 
ina narrowed to the base; cells small, 12-1414-19», angular-rounded, 
of the same size but more irregular in vaginant lamina: flowers monoi- 
cous; male gemmiform, at the base of stems from which they sometimes 
separate (pseudo-dioicous) : fruit nian seta long, red, — cap- 
sule thick, oval, erect, cernuous or arcuate-incurved, pale brown ; oper- 
ulum prominent, conic-rostrate, rd teeth not deeply fisted. very 
scabrous; calyptra pale; spores 13- 
Has.: On rocks, especially aS not rare in Canada and s 
eng the Mi gi river ; collected also in Texas ( Hall) and vance 
ver 
Var. minutulus Austin: Musci App. n. 102. 
F. groggy a Musci All. no. “e aie Am. Acad. n . 68. t. 2A— 
s U. oe 24, n. Muse. 37. t. 24.— . & JAMES: gro 85. vee Jour, 
hy Soc. 2 
